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SRINAGAR: J&K government is carrying out an elaborate survey to identify the individuals and families rendered destitute by the two-decade-old turmoil. Being carried out by the police's intelligence wing, the survey is tipped to be the first such exercise that would offer the details of the surging destitution and the collateral damage. The survey is a pre-requisite for implementing recommendations by one of the prime minister-constituted five working groups seeking rehabilitation of the population that suffered during militancy.

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi has asked the Centre to take the advice of global experts and prepare a scientific plan of action for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of areas devastated in the recent calamity. Qureshi made the suggestion during a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Tuesday. Global experts should be consulted and a scientific model prepared to rehabilitate the affected areas in the state, the Governor said while giving Singh detailed information on the great destruction caused by the natural calamity which hit the hill state last month.

BHUBANESWAR: Demanding that Cyclone Phailin be declared a natural calamity in Odisha, at least nine political parties , including the ruling BJD, urged upon Governor SC Jamir to take up the issue of release of Rs 5,000 crore for rehabilitation and restoration work with the Centre. "The Union government should undertake the major responsibility of rehabilitation and reconstruction work and send adequate assistance to the state to the tune of at least Rs 5,000 crore.

NEW DELHI: The Centre does not have any plan to rehabilitate expatriates returning to India, Minister for Overseas Indians Vayalar Ravi today said. He was replying to a specific question from a participant in Pravasi Bharatiya Divas here who sought to know whether the union government had programmes for rehabilitating the returnees affected by 'nitaquat' policy in Saudi Arabia. "Government of India does not have any plan to rehabilitate the persons.... There is no programme for the rehabilitation for anybody coming from any part of the world to India," Ravi told the gathering.

NEW DELHI: Underlining the need for a law to deal with situations like the Muzaffarnagar communal strife, Minority Affairs minister K Rahman Khan today said special focus should be laid on the rehabilitation of the victims. "I have written a letter to the Prime Minister as well as the Home Minister and I am pursuing this matter," Khan said on the sidelines of an event, when asked whether a special law is needed for such situations. Stressing on the need for rehabilitation of those affected by Muzaffarnagar violence, Khan said the state government should focus on this aspect as well and maintained that his ministry is in constant touch with the Home Ministry.

MUMBAI: In a bureaucratic reshuffle, IAS officers Praveen Pardeshi and Milind Mhaiskar have been appointed as principal secretaries in the Maharashtra Chief Minister's office. Pardeshi was principal secretary (forests) while Mhaiskar was in charge of the relief and rehabilitation department in the previous government. KH Govind Raj is the new secretary of relief and rehabilitation. Meanwhile, Praveen Gedam has been appointed as the commissioner of Nashik Municipal Corporation.

By Tarun Gulati Over the years, Indian corporate legislation, and its implementation, has been severely criticised for not being able to address the concerns of creditors. One of the key changes brought about by the Companies Act, 2013, is the simplification of the procedure for rehabilitation and winding up of sick companies. For the first time, initiative has been taken for creditor say in the revival and rehabilitation process. The initiative is welcome as the erstwhile procedure for rehabilitating sick companies was plagued by procedural delays and rampant misuse of procedures.

GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said his government is drafting a new Land Acquisition Bill for the state as he would not implement the Central Act that was recently amended through an Ordinance. "We are preparing a new Land Acquisition Bill. I said it earlier also and today I am again saying that we are not going to implement the amended Act by the Centre," Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi told reporters here. When asked if the Bill will be introduced in the forthcoming Budget session of the state Assembly, Gogoi said "I do not know if we will be ready with the Bill by then or not as the Budget session is in next month.

BEIJING: India today signed an agreement with Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of China, for transfer of sentenced persons and their social rehabilitation. "India and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) of People's Republic of China signed an agreement on transfer of sentenced persons," India's Consulate in Hong Kong said in a statement. The agreement was signed in Hong Kong by Indian Consul General, Prashant Agrawal and Hong Kong Secretary of Security, Lai Tung Kwok.

JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir government today said 24,631 special police officers (SPOs) are at present working in the state. In a written reply to the joint question of MLCs Bashir Ahmed Magrey, Syed Asgar Ali and Rani Gargi Bleoria in the Legislative Council, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said 24,631 SPOs are presently working in J&K Police. As many as 2,116 SPOs have been converted into constables and followers under the state government's rehabilitation policy of 2009, he added.